13 August 1811

Warland, William, fl. 1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Inquires "what kinds of coins are a legal tender" for paying a debt to a neighbor, "an old tory," who refuses payment in Spanish dollars. At the time of this letter, Varnum was a United States Senator from Massachusetts.

GLC03845.10

12 March 1812

Hill, A.A., fl. 1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Informs Varnum that he will make a deposit (of an undisclosed amount) on his behalf to the State Bank regarding a business transaction. Responds to query regarding the outcome of General Austin: "...all officers return their commands in the Corps to which they originally belonged until they resign or are promoted ..." Date taken from docket.

GLC03845.11

29 December 1813

Dalton, Tristram, 1738-1817

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Informs Varnum of Mr. Swett's rejection of the position in the Office of Deputy Collector in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Sevett "thought it incompatible with his present office to undertake the business." Dalton expresses regret for not being able "to have met your wishes, and to have rendered Mr. Sevett any service." Date of letter reads "29th Decem 1813" however, docket date reads Dec. 29, 1814.

GLC03845.12

6 January 1814

Fowler, Samuel, 1747-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Asks Varnum to name him to a collectorship of the neighboring counties while reminding him how he had been displaced from another position. Illegible words inhibit proper interpretation of letter.

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6 January 1814

Shepherd, Thomas, fl. 1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Shepherd, appointed by the President of the U.S., previously held the position of Collector of the Revenue for the 17th District of the counties of Hampshire, Hampton, and Franklin. He had retired from the position with the hope of having it assigned to Major John Taylor. Since the Senate recently rejected Taylor, Shepherd requests that he be reinstated to the collectorship "...if it is the pleasure of the President & Senate to reinstate me." Shepherd comments that he did not solicit the position, but rather was appointed by the President without his knowledge of having been chosen as…

GLC03845.14

3 March 1814

Hall, Farnham, fl. 1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Announces the sudden death of the Honorable Silas Lee, Esq. and "[B]y this event the office of district attorney has become vacant. The eyes of the President will therefore be turned towards some suitable person to fill that vacancy ..." Advises the position be filled by someone "who can discharge the duties of that office, with fidelity, & give the greatest satisfaction to the public."

GLC03845.15

7 March 1814

Keyes, John, fl. 1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Keyes acknowledges that a change in the Concord Post Office will soon take place. Requests that he be considered for Postmaster General and that he would oblige if appointed.

GLC03845.16

8 March 1814

Smith, J.H., fl. 1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Informs of the election of William Low as officer for state security in the town of Amherst. His election removed a British federalist who represented the town the previous year. Feels that Governor William Plumer will be elected Governor instead of Governor John T. Gilman. Adds a private note requesting Varnum not change the current Port Master, Aaron Whitney because Whitney plans to resign and will recommend Smith to the position. He seeks Varnum's support because "The Members of Congress from this State are my political opponents, which is the cause of my troubling you on the subject."

GLC03845.17

2 April 1814

Kettle, John, fl. 1814

Letter signed

Title: to Joseph B. Varnum

Written as town clerk of Boston regarding appointments, public works, and the court of sessions.

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February 13, 1798

Varnum, Joseph B., 1751-1821

Manuscript document

Title: [Mr. Thatcher's Speech] [Fragment]

Possibly in Joseph Bradley Varnum's hand. Mentions, via Harrison Gray Otis, the publication of a Constitutional report by Alexander Hamilton. Also notes George Thatcher claim that the "System was deficient" and that he could write a better Constitution in two hours.

GLC03845.22

8 November 1790

Slater, I.J., fl. 1790

Manuscript letter

Title: to Robert Patterson

Docketed as an "Extract" by Knox. Relates to Colonel Patterson details of the recent military campaign against the Maumee [Miami] Indians. States that they "sent on the 29th a Detachment of Two hundred men...to follow the Indians." Watermarked "VI."

GLC02437.10226

14 March 1794

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Letter signed

Title: to Governor of North Carolina

Relaying President Washington's instructions regarding a seized Spanish vessel

GLC08120

22 November 1790

Schweizer Jeanneret & Co.

Manuscript letter

Title: to Charles Claude Guillaume Lambert

Detailed description of what the United States owes France, which amounts to about 40 million livres. Discusses the political situation in the United States regarding this debt, the actions of Congress regarding the debt, and dealings with US agents on paying the debt to France. States that "[w]e are informed that the agent of the United States ... has not been able to promise the payment of more than three millions on account of that part of the Debt to France which is now due. We apprehend that it would be an act of great Service to both the United States and to France, to procure the…

GLC02437.10227

15 July 1797

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alexander Hamilton

Proposing meeting to discuss fallout from Maria Reynolds Affair

GLC08097

06 August 1810

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Recalling the Boston political clubs, where "the independence of America originated"

GLC08098

22 August 1806

Eaton, William, 1764-1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dwight Foster

Re: Burr's western conspiracy. Eaton had told Jefferson, who answered, "'There is too much knowledge an integrity among the people to give room to any apprehension of the kind.'"

GLC08103

03 March 1791

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document signed

Title: Act of Congress

Act of Congress calling upon President Washington to "cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any citizen of the United States, within the territory ceded to the United States, by the State of North Carolina and within the territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio."

GLC08117

09 December 1806

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: 1806 State of the Union Address

1806 State of the Union Address, announcing the return of Lewis and Clark, who have "traced the Missouri nearly to its source." Burr's conspiracy discussing calling for prohibition of the slave trade in 1808, as son as allowed under the Constitution.

GLC08118

17 October 1785

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Glen

Arranging a shipment of supplies to the Six Nations, complying with the Treaty of 1792

GLC08124

26 March 1803

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Newspaper

Title: to William Marbury

Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court's landmark decision on "Mandamus": establishing judicial review. Printed in New-York Herald

GLC08125

07 September 1793

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to Vice Consul Moissonier

[Re: Genet Affair] Warning French Vice consul about violation of American neutrality, by trying to raise Naval forces in America.

GLC08130

30 November 1804

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Oldham

Re: avoidance of involvement in other's quarrels: "I generally presume them to flow from the indulgences of too much passion of both sides" (this dispute about contractor for Monticello Greenhouse).

GLC08131

6 October 1794

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Clark

Declines to take Major Clark on as an aide during the Whiskey Rebellion. Comments: "Nothing short of imperious necessity can justify my being absent from the seat of government while Congress is in session."

GLC08075

4 April 1794

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Responds to a letter from Secretary of War Knox relating to the security of the Old Northwest. Comments on a speech by Lord Dorchester [Sir Guy Carleton], the commander in chief in British North America, and states his belief that the British intend "to keep this Country in a state of disquietude with the Indian nations; and also to alter the boundary between them and us, if, by any means, they can effect it." As a consequence of that belief, Washington reiterates his instructions to maintain good relations with the Six Nations and to "Buy Captn. [Joseph] B_t [Brant] off at almost any price…

GLC08076

16 March 1791

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Storer

Recalling the Boston Massacre, also his defense of Constitution: "Equal laws cannot be preserved without there independent orders forming a mutual balance."

GLC08080